We report a high-performance pulsed coherent population trapping (CPT) Cs cell atomic clock using the implementation of a symmetric auto-balanced Ramsey (SABR) interrogation sequence. The latter method is found to reduce the light-power induced frequency shift by an order of magnitude compared to a previous experiment using a simple auto-balanced Ramsey interrogation. The contribution of this shift to the clock frequency stability is now rejected in the 1e16 range at 1e4 s averaging time. Additional tricks, including a compensation method to reduce the laser amplitude noise contribution and the generation of novel error signals for local oscillator frequency and phase correction, have been implemented using a FPGA-based digital electronics board in order to improve the clock short-term stability by a of factor 2. The Allan deviation of the SABR-CPT clock, extracted from a selected 3e4 s-long dataset, is 2e13 s/ au^(1/2) and averages down to the level of 2.5e15 at 1e4 s. These results are encouraging to stimulate the development of hot cell CPT-based clocks for industrial, scientific, and instrumentation applications.
Symmetric autobalanced Ramsey interrogation for high-performance coherent-population-trapping vapor-cell atomic clock / Abdel Hafiz, M.; Coget, G.; Petersen, M.; Calosso, C. E.; Guérandel, S.; de Clercq, E.; Boudot, R.. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0003-6951. - 112:24(2018), p. 244102.
Titolo: | Symmetric autobalanced Ramsey interrogation for high-performance coherent-population-trapping vapor-cell atomic clock |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
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Citazione: | Symmetric autobalanced Ramsey interrogation for high-performance coherent-population-trapping vapor-cell atomic clock / Abdel Hafiz, M.; Coget, G.; Petersen, M.; Calosso, C. E.; Guérandel, S.; de Clercq, E.; Boudot, R.. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0003-6951. - 112:24(2018), p. 244102. |
Abstract: | We report a high-performance pulsed coherent population trapping (CPT) Cs cell atomic clock using the implementation of a symmetric auto-balanced Ramsey (SABR) interrogation sequence. The latter method is found to reduce the light-power induced frequency shift by an order of magnitude compared to a previous experiment using a simple auto-balanced Ramsey interrogation. The contribution of this shift to the clock frequency stability is now rejected in the 1e16 range at 1e4 s averaging time. Additional tricks, including a compensation method to reduce the laser amplitude noise contribution and the generation of novel error signals for local oscillator frequency and phase correction, have been implemented using a FPGA-based digital electronics board in order to improve the clock short-term stability by a of factor 2. The Allan deviation of the SABR-CPT clock, extracted from a selected 3e4 s-long dataset, is 2e13 s/ au^(1/2) and averages down to the level of 2.5e15 at 1e4 s. These results are encouraging to stimulate the development of hot cell CPT-based clocks for industrial, scientific, and instrumentation applications. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11696/59843 |
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